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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] UX help
by Alec Burgess 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Brynn: (some/all?) Europeans use a comma instead of a decimal point so 25,4 means 25.4 see: google [countries that use comma for decimal point] --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark Regards ... Alec On 2017-02-07 Tue 3:26, brynn wrote: > Example: an A4 is 210 mm x 297 mm. Let's convert it in px using the 90 DPI > convention: > 210/25,4*90 = 744 px > 297/25,4*90 = 1052 px > " > I think it uses math symbols that I don't understand. (I've learned math with > that ancient world of inches, feet and yards, rather than metric system.) > > Is it 210 divided by 25? If it is, why do you divide by 25? > > I think 4* 90 means 4 times 90, but I don't understand where the 4 comes from. > And the comma is foreign to me, if it means anything more than pause. > > Thanks again, > brynn > > -----Original Message----- > From: LucaDC -- Regards ... Alec

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arrows
by ToddAndMargo 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Hi All, Not to ask too stupid a question, but can I draw arrows with arrow heads and straight lines at any angle with Inkscape? Like: 4 ----------> Many thanks, -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am Windows I am the Blue Screen of Death No one hears your screams ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Inkscape 0.92.1pre1 now available
by Bryce Harrington 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

This is a pre-release for the upcoming stable bugfix release 0.92.1. Download it at: https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions The release is: 0.92.1pre1 Source Tarball Bzip https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10650/inkscape-0.92.1pre1.tar_TMk7wbg.… String Freeze is now in effect, as well as Hard Freeze. This means no changes will be taken that change any translatable strings. Bug fix patches will still be considered, but only if they're completely safe; patches should be extremely minimal, reviewed by more than one person, and well-tested. Nothing that looks even slightly risky, uncertain, or unfinished please, but I'll consider on a case by case basis, so give me a ping to take a look. == Translations == With String Freeze in effect, no string changes in code are permitted and translations can now be completed. Please finalize your work prior to Monday, Feb 13th. == Future Releases == It's my fault we're running about a week past-schedule (I was trying to fit the dpi dialog work in before the cutoff, but that patch needs a bit more attention.) So I'd like to bump the schedule back by one week to make up for it: Proposed Timing: Original New Date √ Mon Jan 2 Feature Freeze √ 0.92.1pre0 Mon Jan 23 Hard Freeze √ 0.92.1pre1 Mon Jan 30 Fri Feb 3 String Freeze 0.92.1pre2 Mon Feb 6 Mon Feb 13 Release Candidate 0.92.1 Fri Feb 10 Fri Feb 17 Cut Release Mon Feb 13 Mon Feb 20 Announcement Looking forward, point releases on the 0.92.x branch will continue onward, including after we've migrated to git. I am thinking a cadence of a couple months per point release seems to be about the right balance of time, so that'd put 0.92.2 in the April timeframe and 0.92.3 out around July. Further forward, we discussed 0.93 a bit today. I know there's lots of work still to be done to get trunk to a releasable state. I would like to start gathering status on it, to get a better feel for about when we can start planning the release. I'll be posting more about this later, but for now if you have work in process in trunk, I'd love to hear of your plans. Thanks, Bryce

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by Dennis Melling 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] GSoC Text Help (you don't need to be a developer to help with this)
by Josh Andler 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

Wow! Thank you so much! I did not expect such a quick turnaround. I got one other response privately as well so it will likely end up being a nuanced hybrid of the two. Seriously, I was thinking it would have taken days and this was super fast! I literally can't thank you enough! Can I also ask if you're replying from a specific mailing list? I want to make sure we're not underestimating our community on the user list. (Note: I remember you from the 2015 hackfest, so please know I'm not thinking you're a random person :)) Cheers, Josh On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@...155...> wrote: > Cutting text down to meet arbitrary word/character limits happens to be a > specialty of mine. > > The below version (in Markdown instead of WikiText) is just under 1500 > characters. I dropped the URL to the mailing list sign up, but other than > that I think it's still got all the substance. Figuring out how to sign up > to this list becomes another application task, I guess. > > Of course, feel free to take this & work with it. > > ________ > # Inkscape Application > > Thanks for considering Inkscape for your summer of code! To help us find a > good candidate, we ask a few things: > > ## About You > - What is your name, email, & irc nick? > - What plans do you have for the summer in addition to GSoC (classes, > thesis, job, vacation, etc.)? > - What programming projects have you completed? > - What are your favorite programming tools (editor, etc.)? > - Describe any work on other open-source projects. > - List other GSoC projects you're applying to. > > ## About Inkscape > - When did you hear about Inkscape? > - What do you create with Inkscape? > - What other open-source tools do you use? > - How have you participated in the Inkscape community (e.g. uploaded > drawings, created tutorials, submitted bug reports, asked or answered > questions)? > - How have you contributed to Inkscape development (e.g. bug fixes, > translations, packaging, testing)? > - In exactly **2** sentences, why should we pick **YOU**? > > ## Tasks > - Submit a drawing you've made, showing how you use Inkscape. > - Introduce yourself on the inkscape-devel mailing list and post your > project ideas for feedback, *before* submitting your application > - [Checkout](http://inkscape.org/bzr.php) the Inkscape sourcecode through > Bazaar; review, compile & build it. > - Pick 2 [bugs](https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/) (or add new ones). > Create & upload patches for them; make sure we can connect these to your > GSoC application. > - Prepare a detailed plan (with timetable) of the work you propose to do.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 129, Issue 1
by unknown＠example.com 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

Hi, Brynn! Thanks for staying with this isue! So do you mean that the 9.1 release will work on OSX 10.12? Website says 10.7-10.10, so I figured it wouldn't work... I'll have to wait on following up with MacPorts my laptop was lifted from my bag yesterday! So, I'll have to deal with insurance, etc and it'll be at least week or so before I have my a laptop again. Bit of a shock, but life does do this every now and then:-} Great news that there could be an official release! That would be superb! So, I'll hang in there (here?) and I guess I'll get Inkscape to work at some point! But I'm very glad the community and forum is working well, makes things a lot easier! Cheers, Girilal 2017-02-02 skrev inkscape-user-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net: >Hi Girilal, > Unfortunately, all we can do at this point, is to suggest you contact >Macports support for this. > If you learn what the solultion is, would you please let me know? At >least I'll be able to help other users who try the Macports route. > If you can't get a solution from Macports, at least you should be able >to install version 0.91 from the website, for the time being. There is a DMG >version for 0.91. > There is some encouraging news for the future, and hopefully near >future. A small handful of people have become interested in providing an >official Inkscape release for Macs. I'm not sure if that means a DMG version, >or exactly what it means. But I'll be trying to follow their work, and I'll try >and keep the forum community informed (and mailing list too). > Sorry, I wish I had better news for you. > >All best, >brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Edit particular part of SVG only
by DyslexicAwe Talent 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hello Lars, Very much like you, I am new to the list (albeit not entirely new to Inkscape itself). If Inkscape allows for user scripting, however, which I am not sure if it does, (Edit) I had to google and I found a blog post titled "Inkscape extensions by non developers, for non developers. A primer". The post explains it is possible. To avoid breaking the url across lines, I decided to shorten it, so see https://goo.gl/Fr2Mre to read how non-developers like you and me could create an extension. It's a bit intimidating to think about it, but maybe it could be done by non-developers, I don't know.) then an ordinary user could write a script (or extension) and make the process automatized. Providing that the part you want to edit is selected, the extension would need to: a) create new layer and name it "1st temporary (layer)", b) move currently selection to the newly created temp layer, c) create another layer and name it for example "2nd temp (layer)", d) reverse the selection, e) move new selection (i.e. all but those in the 1st temp layer) to the second temp layer, f) lock and g) hide the 2nd temp layer, This way we would be able to select and edit the parts from "1st temp layer" only, as you suggested. Kind Regards, DyslexicAweTalent P.S. To editors of the list. Maybe you want people who are new to the list, like me, to read the reminders how to contribute to the list, using a numbered list like that (just a humble proposal): 1) If sending a new submission, send it to inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net 2) If replying, the Subject line should be changed from generic "XXX digest" to a "Re:" and more specific subject. Date: 30 Jan 2017 15:41 From: "Lars" <noreply@...3267...> Subject: Edit particular part of SVG only > Say an SVG file has a chair. The chair is composed of several parts. It > has a back, legs, etc. > Can one part be completely isolated?

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Inkscape does not see Times New Roma font
by Rafael Morales Gamboa 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hello, I am running Inkscape 0.48 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 (Elementary OS Freya), and I have installed Microsoft Core and New fonts. Now it happens that Inkscape can see them all but Times New Roman, and I cannot see way. Any ideas? Regards, Rafael

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape does not see Times New Roma font
by C R 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Try copying the ttf file for the font into the hidden .fonts folder in your home folder. This usually works well for me on Ubuntu based distros. In fact it works so well that I often just clone Google's entire open fonts git repo right into it. :) Hope it helps! -C On 31 Jan 2017 10:16 p.m., "Rafael Morales Gamboa" <rmorales@...3269...> wrote: > Hello, > I am running Inkscape 0.48 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 (Elementary OS Freya), and I > have installed Microsoft Core and New fonts. Now it happens that Inkscape > can see them all but Times New Roman, and I cannot see way. > > Any ideas? > > Regards, > Rafael > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > >

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Re: [Inkscape-user] OSX 10.12 problem
by Girilal Baars 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hi, Maren and Brynn! Thanks for getting back to me on this! Apologies for my lack of clarity:-) > Which installation method did you choose? X11 (cia MacPorts) > Which instructions did you follow? The ones on the release page for 0.92 OSX: https://inkscape.org/en/download/mac-os/ <https://inkscape.org/en/download/mac-os/> > I'm not a Mac user either. But I've seen this problem posted a few different > times. After using Macports to install Inkscape, everything looks like it was > working. But afterwards, they can't find Inkscape. That is exactly what happened in my case. Can’t find anything named inkscape on my computer! A bit frustrating overall, since I’m not really accustomed to doing stuff in Terminal. But it did look like everything was supposed to be OK. Thanks Girilal

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GSoC Text Help (you don't need to be a developer to help with this)
by Josh Andler 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hey All, So, I'm looking to complete the application for this year's GSoC (Google Summer of Code, for those unfamiliar). Unlike previous years, they actually want our application hosted with them as opposed to a link to what we want in our wiki. It supports markdown, which is awesome, but when I go to pull what we have and put it in a text editor that counts characters, we're at 2035 characters when we need to be at 1500. Again, this is with the relevant markup which unfortunately counts against us. The source I speak of (for those with a wiki account is): http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=SOC_Application_Template&acti… Is there anyone with the time and inclination to help keep the substance while cutting down on the fat? (It looks lean to me as a start, but as you can tell by this email, brevity isn't normally a strong point for me) Our application needs to be complete by the 9th and this is one piece of it that I could really use a hand on due to my obligations for SCALE which are overlapping right now. I don't know that the main text itself that we host needs to be cut down as much as we should start a second copy that is intended for brevity, with shorturls and all that to help too. Any volunteers? Cheers, Josh

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Edit particular part of SVG only
by Lars 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Hi, Say an SVG file has a chair. The chair is composed of several parts. It has a back, legs, etc. Is there any way to isolate one part of the chair only (one object? one vector section? sorry I do not know the correct term or word for it) and edit it isolated from all the other parts, say in its own window? Indeed you can select a particular part of the chair and edit it with all the other parts near it.. but I am wondering if you can completely isolate it, say in it's own edit window, to focus only on it, zoom in on it, etc. As a newbie, this may be something everyone knows how to do. Apologies if it's easy and I just missed how to do it. The idea is I want to focus on certain parts of the drawing and ignore the rest. And, if this feature doesn't exist in the standard program as it is, would such an idea be possible with an extension?

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Inkscape 0.92.x stable daily PPA
by Bryce Harrington 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

For testers on Ubuntu, I've created a new automated PPA that builds snapshots of the current stable branch, 0.92.x: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable-daily Note that while these snapshots are of the stable tree, the packages aren't official releases, so there is some chance of bugs, and things can change. This PPA is intended to make it more convenient for folks to test our stable tree and help us ensure the point releases are high quality. I've only tested the Trusty package, so ymmv on other ubuntu releases but I expect they should all work as well as the official point releases. Bryce

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OSX 10.12 problem
by Girilal Baars 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

Hello list! I am completely new to the list and to Inkscape, so apologies for some very basic questions. I had some trouble installing via terminal, but finally it seems it worked. However – I just can’t find the actual app! I assume it is called Inkscape and should be located in the Applications folder. Searching my computer doesn’t turn up any file called Inkscape. I feel like I may have missed a really basic trick:-) Any help seriously appreciated! Thank you Girilal Baars Sweden

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0.91.1 pre0 available for testing
by Maren Hachmann 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

Hi everyone, the Inkscape 0.91.1 release is scheduled for ~ mid February (schedule may change!). For testing purposes, Bryce Harrington and Eduard Braun have made the pre0 (beta) prerelease source code and 7z Windows packages available on the Inkscape website at (scroll down to bottom of page): https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions/ This prerelease version introduces an automatic fix (which can be deactivated via command line argument) for some of the line-height problems encountered in Inkscape 0.92. It also fixes some crashes, untranslatable strings and typos, and adds a couple of translations. For more info on the changes, see also https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/0.92.x (relevant revisions: 15301 to 15340) Please only use this prerelease for testing purposes and report issues in the bug tracker at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape Regards, Maren

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svg to emf conversion is still buggy
by Dr. Sören Textor 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

Hello Converting an svg to emf still seems to be buggy (I just tried inkscape-0.92.x-15325-win32.7z <http://download.tuxfamily.org/inkscape/win32/inkscape-0.92.x-15325-win32.7z> ). Attached you'll find the input svg and the result emf. This is a screenshot of the resultig emf file using "save as emf": As you can see there are white borders on the right and the bottom of the image. And no: most of the time the width of the bordes is not the same in x and y direction. Is there any way to get better results? Or do you know any freeware to crop emfs (without pixelating)? Best regards, Sören Textor

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issues with Arrange > Polar Coordinates
by brynn 22 Jan '17

22 Jan '17

Hi Friends, I was just answering a forum question about creating a clockface, and I used the Polar Coordinates dialog. I found that if I draw a circle, then type out the numbers, then choose Object's Rotational Center and First Circle (or 2nd), then select all, then click Arrange, all the numbers are placed at 3 o'clock. I found that if I move the circle before clicking arrange, it makes the feature function properly. Should I make a bug report? Or is this already a known issue? I searched LP without finding any similar report. But often I might not know the proper terminology (and recently I found the wiki was being used for bug reports (for gradient mesh)) so I just ask before I make a bug report, just in case. I'm on Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit, Inkscape 0.92, 64-bit. Another issue, which is a little bit nit-picky, but still important, imo. For some time, I couldn't figure out what object was being referred to in "Object's bounding box" and "Object's rotational center". Is it the object I am drawing (such as a clock face)? It can't mean the circle, because further below in the dialog, it says "circle" (and if it meant circle, it would have said 'Circle's rotational center'). But after a lot of clicking around and trial and error, it seems it refers to the numbers on the clock face example. If that's the case, it should be "Objects' bounding box" and "Objects' rotational center". If they had been properly written, I would have understood at once that the objects in question are the numbers (or whatever objects are being arranged around the circle). Should I make a bug report about that? Thanks for your help :-) brynn

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Mesh gradients: Polyfill available
by Maren Hachmann 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Hi everyone, Tav has published his polyfill for mesh gradients! (A polyfill is a piece of javascript code that supplies functions to browsers that they are lacking. They are usually used, if a web designer/developer wants to use some cool new feature, that doesn't work in some browsers, or doesn't work in older browser versions.) You can find his article (and the code for download, it's licenced GPLv3 or later) at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/POLYFILL/MESH/mesh.html Regards, Maren

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Ubuntu ppa now with 0.92
by Maren Hachmann 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know that Alex Valavanis has updated Inkscape's stable Ubuntu ppa at https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable for the 0.92 release, so you can now install / update to the latest version on Ubuntu and derivatives via package management. Instructions about how to add a ppa to your software sources can also be found on the web page linked from above. Have fun drawing! Regards, Maren

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Hilfe
by gruhler 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

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Settings as command-line options?
by Christoph Raab 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Dear fellow Inkscapists, thanks to the "Larger" option for icon sizes in the 0.92 version, more of the icons are now usable on my laptop's high-DPI display. Using an external monitor, that makes them too large of course, and changing the setting means starting Inkscape, going into the preferences, and restarting. Since everything else works fine, I didn't want to try compiling with GTK3 enabled since it's marked "experimental". But can I give these these icon size preferences as an option when starting Inkscape? Then I could just start a different script depending on what monitor I'm using. Of course it would be ideal if that's already an option, since then I could eventually switch to a binary distribution. But I don't mind compiling it myself either, if it's something I can add in myself. Does somebody know how this could work? Best, Christoph

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Data-visualization extension ?
by Pierre Massat 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Dear all, I know I should be sending this to the dev list, but I'm not a member and I'm feeling lazy. In Illustrator there's a tool to import data in a spreadsheet, and create basic charts from that. It's very handy for people who do data-visualization. I would think that Inkscape is just as good as Illustrator for tweaking existing svg charts (colors, text, layout, etc.). But due to the lack of this tool Inkscape currently requires an extra step to create the charts with another application (e.g. the R project for statistical computing). I looked at tutorials to create extensions. I think that the logic could be quite easily implemented (i.e. calculating scales, displaying the shapes). But there doesn't seem to be a spreadsheet widget for the UI, which makes it a no-go if users can't input a few simple numbers manually. Any idea how difficult it would be to create this extension ? Cheers, Pierre.

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Fill between strokes
by Robert Funnell 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

I've been trying to figure out how to use the 'Fill between strokes' path effect in 0.92 but I can't figure out what sequence of operations to use, or what the 'Link to path' and 'Select original' buttons are supposed to do. I've searched for instructions or tutorials without finding anything that matches what I'm seeing in 0.92. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thank you. - Robert

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Question on text colors of info boxes ...
by Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Dear listmembers, I am quite happy with Inkscape (V 0.91 on openSUSE 42.1 with kde) with one single exception I could not find a solution for until now: Whenever I move the mouse - curser over an icon say on the left upright bar with different symbols (for example the selection icon) a help text is displayed. Unfortunately this text is white on a light gray background: long text short answer: one can hardly read what is shown in the box. Could any kind soul shed light on this and (maybe ...) tell me how to fix this problem? Any pointer is greatly appreciated, many thanks in advance, take care Dieter Jurzitza -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza 76131 Karlsruhe

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traceback from Interpolate extension
by brynn 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Hi Friends, Trying to use the Interpolate extension, I'm getting an error, including Traceback, and no results. Here's the traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "interp.py", line 333, in <module> e.affect() File "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\extensions\inkex.py", line 283, in affect self.effect() File "interp.py", line 156, in effect basestyle['stroke-width'] = self.tweenstyleunit('stroke-width',sst,est,0) File "interp.py", line 114, in tweenstyleunit ep = self.unittouu(end[property]) / scale KeyError: 'stroke-width' I notice the last line which is something about the stroke width. But neither of the 2 original objects have a stroke at all. When I searched Launchpad, I found this report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1586568. It seems to be related to stroke width, but as I said, there are no strokes in this case. Inkscape 0.92 stable, 64-bit, exe installer, Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit. Shall I add a Comment to that bug report, or is this different? If it's the same thing, how can I make use of the file which suv provided? Thank you very much, brynn

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